Overshoe-retainer for felt boots



(No Model.)

J. CRAVEN. OVERSHOE RETAINER FOR FELT BOOTS.

Patented Sept. 10, 1895.

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JAMES CRAVEN, OF HASTINGS, MICHIGAN.

QVERSHOE-RETAI N ER FOR FELT BOOTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,065, dated September 10, 1895.

Application filed March 5, 1894. Serial No. 502,468. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES CRAVEN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Hastings, in the county of Barry and State of Michigan, have invented certain. new and useful Improvementsin Overshoe-Retainers for Felt Boots; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists in an attachment for felt boots, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which the same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my invention, the overshoe being shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a detail View of the inner side of the counter of the overshoe, showing the metal plate which is attached thereto. detail view of the flexible metal combined stiffening and locking plate which is secured to the rear of the felt boot. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the back of the felt boot.

Felt boots for lumbermen generally give vway and sag at the ankle, and when wet are extremely difficult to remove for that reason. To stiffen the ankle part of felt boots and provide for their easy removal is the primary object of my invention, which stiffens and braces a felt boot at the ankle-point, autom atically locks the overshoe to the felt boot when the former is drawn on, holding the heel of the felt boot to the rubber or overshoe so that when pulling off the overshoe the felt boot comes off with it, the attachment also holding the overshoe from slipping up and down at the heel when walking.

Referring to the several parts by their designating letters, E indicates a stiffening-strip of leather, which is secured by stitching it at its edges to the back of the felt boot F, opposite the ankle, as shown in the drawings. A transverse slit 6 is formed in this leather near its lower part, through which is passed the upper part of a flexible metal plate A,

a which is riveted to the leather strip, as shown.

Fig. 3 is a tion, taken in connection with the accompany- I ing drawings, that the leather strip E and metal plate A will stiffen and brace the felt boot at the ankle at the point where felt boots wrinkle and sag when damp and Wet; that the attachment locks the overshoe on the felt boot as the former is put on, the catch 0 en gaging automatically with the catches D, holding the heel of the overshoe from slipping up and down while Walking, while it affords an easy means of removing the felt boot, as when the overshoes are drawn off the felt boots are drawn off with them,the attachment holding the boot and overshoe locked firmly together.

Since the elastic tendency of the free end of the plate A is to hold said end away from the boot and in engagement with the catch on the overshoe and yields toward the boot against a spring resistance when unlocking the catches, it not only facilitates the automatic locking of the catches, but also facilitates their disengagement, especially in case the overshoe is removed from the boot when the latter is on the foot, for the reason that the foot fills the bootand makes the counter portion in effect rigid against inward yielding of the plate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A foot-gear, comprising a felt-boot, a strip of leather attached to the ankle portion of said boot, an elastic metal plate having one end passed through said leather strip, located between said boot and leather strip and attached thereto, the other end of said plate being free and provided with a catch,and an overshoe provided with a catch adapted to interlock with the catch of the plate on the boot, substantially as setforth.

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ing the catch, a felt boot, an enlongated elastic metal plate attached at its upper end to catch, whereby the detachment of the overthe ankle portion of said boot, the lower end shoe when the boot is on the foot is facilitated, being free from all attachments, provided substantially as set forth.

- with an integral catch, and extending down- JAMES CRAVEN.

ward between the over-shoe and boot, and Witnesses: adapted to hold itself with a spring resistance BERT FAIRGHILD, away from the boot and against the over-shoe CI-IATTIE LAKE. 

